The company will hold job fairs for current employees on Monday and Tuesday from 4-8 p.m. at Market Basket Andover IT Computer Center on 340 Balladvale Street in Andover, Massachusetts.

A job fair will be held for the general public next Wednesday from 1-8 p.m.

The news comes one day after the chief executives of Market Basket issued a statement saying employees who have stayed off the job to demand the return of fired CEO Arthur T. Demoulas must return to work by Monday.

The statement said the workers can return without penalty. It also said the company will begin seeking replacements for those who don't.

But workers News 9 has spoken with during the protests said they have been rallying during their off-hours and working their shifts. Some have said they're worried about getting fired.

Labor and employment lawyer James Reidy, of Sheehan, Phinney, Bass and Green, said that as long as employees keep fighting for better working conditions for the company as a whole, their actions are protected under the National Labor Relations Act, despite the fact the workers are not unionized.

Meanwhile, the board of directors is still considering Arthur T. Demoulas' bid to buy the company. There is no word on when the board might come to a decision on the bid to buy out the company.

MANCHESTER WITH WHAT EMPLOYEES ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS MOVE BY THE COMPANY. GOOD AFTERNOON, RAY. GOOD AFTERNOON, SEAN. MOST OF THE EMPLOYEES, SOME OF WHOM YOU CAN SEE PROTESTING BEHIND ME, SAY THESE NEW ADS ARE NOT GOING TO CHANGE A THING. IN FACT, SOME SEE IT AS A SIGN THAT THE COMPANY IS GROWING DESPERATE. AS THEY HAVE SINCE JULY 22, MARKET BASKET EMPLOYEES IN HOOKSETT WERE OUT SUPPORTING FIRE CEO ARTHUR TEED MELISSA -- ARTHUR T. DEMOULAS. WE HAVE SO MUCH SUPPORT OUT HERE. IT IS UNREAL. THAT SUPPORT HAS INCLUDED THOUSANDS OF RALLIES, BUT NO LONGER, MARKET BASKET HAS TAKEN OUT ADS. THESE ARE JUST INTIMIDATION TACTICS BY THE CEO'S, WHO ARE NOT REALLY OUR CEO'S. THEY POINTED OUT THEY ARE NOT ALONE. YOU CAN REHIRE ALL THE EMPLOYEES YOU WANT, BUT YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO REHIRE ALL OF THE CUSTOMERS WHO ARE STILL ON OUR SIDE. HOWEVER, THAT IT RUINED CAN TAKE THAT STANCE. I STILL MAKE MY JOB TO PAY MY BILLS. HE SAYS HE HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO IMPLY WITH THE COMPANY'S ULTIMATUM AND RETURN TO WORK ON MONDAY. AS OF MONDAY, I WILL NOT COME OUT ANYMORE, BUT UNTIL THEN, WE SELL A CHANCE TO GET DONE WHAT WE CAN TO GET ARTHUR T. BACK. QUITE HOWEVER, THAT SEEMS TO BE THE EXCEPTION. IF WE ARE NOT SUCCESSFUL, I FEEL AS THOUGH I WILL LOOK FOR ANOTHER AVENUE OF EMPLOYMENT. WHILE MONDAY'S ULTIMATUM IS FAST APPROACHING, MOST EMPLOYEES INSIST UNLESS ARTHUR T. IS BACK